American Memory: Technical summary

Collection Overview

Description

Multiformat collection of selected materials from the popular stage and
allied arts. Photographs and memorabilia of Houdini; English playscripts;
Yiddish playscripts; a selection of playbills and program books; motion
pictures; and sound recordings.

Source collection

Various

Technical features

Opportunity to convert texts of challenging typed and handwritten
playscripts in English and multiple forms of Yiddish orthography to
searchable form (and translate from Yiddish to English); opportunity to
develop tools for searching for playbills and program books now
reproduced as image-only sets; collection also includes pictorial items,
motion pictures, and a small amount of audio.

The Library is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection or any other
restrictions in the materials in the Variety Stage Collection, however
there may be content protected as "works for hire" (copyright may be held
by the party that commissioned the original work) and/or under the
copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.
See notes on rights and
restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.

Bibliographic record or menu contains identifier used in names
for directory (for documents) or
files (for other formats). Numbering system and page-turning dataset in
place to
sequence and present page images for documents. Motion pictures longer than
four minutes are divided into segments (with filenames ending in s1, s2,
etc.).